The easiest web framework for synthesizing API-first web apps that also have web front-ends.
Version 0.4.13 (latest):
Note: Despite being fully functional, synth is not yet ready for production. It hasn't been tested in production and since it's in active development, implementation and interface details are likely to change rapidly.
Synth is an API-first web app framework (built on NodeJS) that provides the following features:
- Easily created new RESTful API resources by just creating folders and naming functions a certain way.
- Preload angular model data on page load (saving an extra roundtrip).
- Preload html view on page load (saving another extra roundtrip!)
- A simplified project structure where front-end code (angular code, html, css, bower packages, etc) is in the 'front' folder and back-end code (node code and node packages) are in the 'back' folder.
- A command-line tool for installing third party packages, using npm + bower, that auto-updates manifest files.
- Auto compilation of assets on request for dev, and pre-compilation for prod (including minification and ngmin).
- Auto-restarts the server when changes are detected.
- Support for various back-end and front-end templates to help get a new project going quickly.
For complete up-to-date documentation, tutorials, and example apps, check out synthjs.com.